It’s both a heat pump and a refrigerator. It uses a technology called ‘elastocalorics’ to vary the air temperature by up to 20°C. The secret is a super-elastic metal called nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium. Engineers at Saarland University and the Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology made the device.
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